Suggestions for my new 4 string

I might be in the market for a new 4 string, and I'm taking suggestions from you guys.

Here are the REQUIREMENTS:

1) Must be left-handed, duh
2) Must be in the $500 range
3) Must be a good bass for a 2x15 cab, needs a good bassy sound, none of that weak punchy crap. I could care less if it's good for slapping to. I play mostly modern heavy rock with my fingers.

There ya go, personally, I'm leaning towards the MIM Fender Precision or Jazz, and I really like the Ibanez BTB-400, but I haven't seen one of those as a lefty.

glad im not a lefty ....... j/k. i would go with a MIM fender jazz. VERY easy to customize with the pups of your choice, bridge, pickguard, etc. . i found a fretless MIM used for $195 and i didnt get it, ...... im still kicking myself for not buying it. ( i found it in KC and i left the next day ) good luck
Sam

hey lefty, i got a question for you... when you decided to start playing bass, did anyone ever ask you if you wanted to play right handed? Would have made it a whole lot easyer for you, because you'd have literaly every bass avalible for you. I ask because when i was first starting out, i went looking for the quest of a simple lefty bass (i too am left handed), but a guy by the name of Rick Elswit (guitar player for the band Dr. Hook, they're not around anymore, and he now works in a guitar shop), a friend of my dad's explained to me a very simple thing... "There are no left handed piano's, saxaphones, trumpits, why should there be left handed guitars/basses?" This made sense to me, because when i went to go try out basses, didnt matter if it was left handed or right handed, i sucked at playing both. So... my decided factor was that its easyer to get a righty guitar/bass than a lefty. problem solved.

On topic... Fender just made more basses lefty avalible, check out their price lists at their web page, at the mr gear head part, it'll tell you all the new stuff, and which stuff is now avalible as a lefty.

Fender haven't made any more of thier basses lefty, it is the same as last year MIM Jazz, MIA Hot Rodded P Bass and MIA Deluxe Jazz Bass. The best way of getting a lefty Fender is looking for used MIA 1995-1998 stuff, most of it came lefty.

Originally posted by Muttluk hey lefty, i got a question for you... when you decided to start playing bass, did anyone ever ask you if you wanted to play right handed? Would have made it a whole lot easyer for you, because you'd have literaly every bass avalible for you. I ask because when i was first starting out, i went looking for the quest of a simple lefty bass (i too am left handed), but a guy by the name of Rick Elswit (guitar player for the band Dr. Hook, they're not around anymore, and he now works in a guitar shop), a friend of my dad's explained to me a very simple thing... "There are no left handed piano's, saxaphones, trumpits, why should there be left handed guitars/basses?" This made sense to me, because when i went to go try out basses, didnt matter if it was left handed or right handed, i sucked at playing both. So... my decided factor was that its easyer to get a righty guitar/bass than a lefty. problem solved.

On topic... Fender just made more basses lefty avalible, check out their price lists at their web page, at the mr gear head part, it'll tell you all the new stuff, and which stuff is now avalible as a lefty.

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Yes, someone did ask me if I wanted to play righty, but I picked up a righty, and I couldn't do a thing with it. However, when I picked up a lefty, it came natural to me and I learned on the lefty a lot faster.

To answer your question as to why are there no lefty other instruments, it's simple. Other instruments do not require a fret hand and a pick hand. Other instruments have both hands doing the SAME THING, therefore there is no conflict between the hands.

But actually, they do make lefty pianos, some guy posted the site when I told this one guy off for dissing lefties.

Stumbled on over to the Yamaha site. They've (finally) updated it.
There's a few models available lefty - BBN4L, BBN5L, RBX260L, and
the "new" RBX270L. Yammers are surprisingly good quality for bein'
so cheap. You could probably find one well within your price range
and have somethin' left over for a new cord or set of strings. They're
decent right outta' the box and upgrades are a piece of cake. `Least
on the passive RBX series. I've got a 260F and have swapped-out the
pup and the bridge. First bridge was a Badass II (a li'l overkill ). Next
was a black chrome Gotoh 201. With the DiMarzio Split P, now I've got
Steve Harris "clanky-ness" with T/I flats .`Tell the truth, when
my R/A double gets here the Yammer's the only one I'm keepin' .

(hmm....no, I don't work for Yamaha Just a big fan of good quality at low $)